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Man-in-the-Street and Man-who-Knows are walking together 
engaged in lively argument. They are accosted by a Stranger of 
noble bearing and benign countenance. 

Stranger — Friends, I trust you will pardon my intrusion, but I 
can no longer refrain from asking information. I am a native of 
Saturn, a planet which long since achieved a second Golden Age. 
We are able to learn what is going on in all the other planets, in a 
general way, and we can travel from planet to planet. Until re- 
cently we never thought the Earth important enough to warrant a 
visit, but we are aware of the agitations of an unprecedentedly 
mighty conflict here at present ; and moreover, to our sensitive per- 
ceptions, it has been evident that you are not merely afflicted with 
open strife, which often has aspects of nobility, but that you are 
suffering from some wide-spread moral malad}^ — some plague of 
ignoble public falsehood, some fever of lies and insanity of false 
witness. So our Central University sent me here to investigate; 
and I came to this great Kepublic, which of all things earthly is 
the favorite contemplation of Saturnine philosophers, thinking that 
here I should breathe an atmosphere of charitable impartiality. 
Imagine my distress to find here also so much recrimination and 
venom ! 

Man-in-the-Strcet — No wonder you are bewildered ! These Ger- 
mans, German-Americans and pro-Germans have been making a 
lot of impudent noise with their magazines, books, pamphlets and 
what-not ! But of course America is neutral ! 

Man-who-Knows — With all charity toward my friend, let me 
warn you that he speaks of these matters with more passion than 
truth or logic. Your scholars, watching us from Saturn, have 
noticed, doubtless, that for more than a decade, extraordinary ef- 
forts have been made to create in America two tendencies of public 
opinion, one favorable to England, one inimical to Germany. The 
history books supplied our children have been emasculated to con- 
ceal the images of English tyranny in 1776, English brutality in 
1813 and English perfidy in 1863, while the importance of the 
English element in our stock and English ideas in our civilization 



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has been emphasized to the exclusion of even the most moderate 
reference to the other races and the other ideas which have entered 
our being and molded our character. Our National Anthem has 
been mutilated to conceal the truth of EngRsh brutality. Three 
times in fifteen years England has sought to bind us to her by 
treaties of alliance. Envoys came here to flatter us, societies were 
founded and festivals celebrated to impress upon our cosmopolitan 
people that they were Anglo-Saxons; and the uninterrupted flow 
of gall in English journalistic reference to us was discreetly mixed 
with honey. The American Tory orated over the land. On the 
other hand, attacks on Germany, calumnies about the Kaiser and 
his heir, shameless in their lack of common fairness, in ever-in- 
creasing volume deluged our papers, and even cheap fiction maga- 
zines reeked with stories of German villains whose plots against 
the American heroine and the American nation were foiled by an 
English hero ! We were warned against Germany as our future 
foe, upon the ludicrous grounds that Germany might attempt a 
conquest of South America ! — while England, who possesses half of 
this continent, who covets Mexico, who holds the islands that con- 
trol the Panama Canal, who has bluffed us out of our free use 
of that waterway, whose fortifications frown on us at Vancouver, 
Halifax and the West Indies, whose fleet rules our waters and 
whose Ally, Japan, threatens us in the Pacific — England has been 
held up to our gaze as our only friend ! 

Stranger — All this is true; we have noted these things from 
Saturn, while most of your own people are blind to them. This 
regrettable condition, which amounts to depriving America of its 
own intellect and its own knowledge, seems to have arisen partly 
because your newspapers are content to take second-hand carbon- 
copy versions of the news of the rest of the world from English 
correspondents, and partly because your magazines are snobbish 
enough to consider any little loose-thinking, unreliable English 
publicist a great authority, for whose articles they scramble, while 
rejecting the writings of American students. 

Man-who-Knows — So also from the moment the situation grew 
tense, in August, 1914, the American press shrieked denunciation of 
Austria-Hungary and Germany in the form of articles cabled from 
London and editorials based on the same. As to the noise made by 
the dreadful pro-Germans, I counted the books and pamphlets on 
the War displayed in the greatest book-store of one of our principal 
cities, in December, 1914, and again in March, 1915. On the 
first occasion there were thirty pro-Ally books, ten books, pam- 
phlets or magazines setting forth the German side or giving fair 
information about Germany, and three neutral books. Five of the 



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pro-German books were enclosed in anti-German wrappers. In 
March, I found fifty-six pro-Ally publications, to four pro-German! 

Stranger — It scarcely seems true, then, that the Germans are 
making most of the noise ! But how would you define a neutral ? 

Man-in-ihe-Street — A neutral is an American newspaper reader 
who doesn't care which nation licks the "Dutch." 

Stranger — It will shock them in Saturn to hear that you could 
speak with such levity about this ghastly War, with all its dreadful 
suffering, or with such venom about the great German race. A 
neutral at this solemn crisis should have too much fear of God in 
his heart and too much gentlemanliness in his mental attitude to 
accept the first accusation made and refuse to study the other side. 
We would consider the venom and intemperance of wholesale 
charges as a good reason for discounting the case of the party that 
makes them ! Your neutrality must be a wonderful thing ! 

Man-iuho-Knows — It is ! We solemnly assure the world that we 
feel impartial sorrow and friendship for all the belligerents. Then 
we print the news of one side prominently, with glaring headlines, 
we assert our faith in it on the editorial page and make it the 
basis of our cartoons ; but the news and pleas of the other side we 
hide away in lower corners and inside pages. We call German 
officers "brutes and vandals" and German soldiers "barbarians and 
Huns," and forget that many of us have attended imiversities with 
the former, and found them gentlemen, and that the brothers and 
kin of the latter are twenty million of our neighbors in these States, 
and that we have lived with them in mutual respect and satisfac- 
tion for many decades. We make our public organs the trumpets 
of English charges, and then expect that the German government 
is to be tongue-tied, the German-American forget he is alive, and 
all pro-Germans forbear attempting to put facts before High Per- 
sonages, under pain of being called hyphenated- Americans ! 

Stranger — What is a hyphenated- American ? 

Man-in-the-Strect — A German-American or an Irish-American, 

Stranger — And not an Anglo-American? Why, we should say 
on Saturn that you are all hyphenated- Americans ! Did not Span- 
iards and Frenchmen settle within these borders before the Eng- 
lish? There were Irish on the Mayflower and they came by the 
tens of thousands yearly before 1776; they settled the Southern 
mountains and pioneered the Middle West. New York traces its 
institutions and traditions chiefly to Dutchmen ; and great districts 
of Pennsylvania look like Germany because their farms were laid 
out and cultivated by Germans alone. There were three hundred 
Irish among the patriots on Bunker Hill, and Generals Montgom- 
ery, Wayne, Knox, Moylan, Sullivan and Clinton were Irish 



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hyphenated- Americans ; while De Kalb, Steuben, Herkimer and 
Muhlenberg were German hyphenated- Americans. The American 
Navy was founded on the brave deeds of a Scot, Paul Jones, and 
an Irishman, John Barry. Seven or eight million Germans have 
settled in America, nearly five million Irish, and millions, all told, 
of Scots, Welsh, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Poles, Ruthenians, 
Russians, Jews, Italians and Portuguese. The blood of all these 
rises higher by far in the veins of America than the blood of Eng- 
land. Nothing binds you more to England than to these others save 
the language, and that is yours merely because English ruthlessness 
succeeded in subduing the whole of Atlantic America to that tyranny 
from which the Patriots of 1776 revolted ! How then is this one 
European nation singled out as the only one to which you may 
look affectionately? Is not the love and memory of the ancestral 
land a softening and an enriching thing in the life of every new 
American? Do not the children of German and Irish, Pole and 
Italian, gain by understanding the land of their Fathers? Does 
it not increase the intelligence of America, make better Americans, 
and lay a firmer basis for that peace which America should enjoy 
with all the world? Is it not true, too, that most English who 
come here do not naturalize ? 

Man-wlio-Knows — That is true. They reap the benefits of 
American opportunity but assume none of the duties of citizenship. 
Then, too, what do the critics of hyphenated- Americans think of the 
Pilgrim Society, organized to urge a military alliance between 
England and America, and the Over-Seas Clubs, composed of un- 
naturalized Englishmen, who make their living out of America, for 
English purposes only, and the various efforts made under a fraudu- 
lent cloak of Peace propaganda, to bind this country to England 
in a league to "police" — that is, bully — the world ? 

Man-in^the-Street — Well, anyway, Germany started this War. 
All the newspapers agree on that. 

Man-wlio-Knows — Ah, yes, the newspapers ! These sanctified 
pawn-brokers to whom we pledge our minds and consciences in re- 
turn for discounted doles of false intellectual currency ! We shut 
ourselves up in the dark temple of business, and allow only these 
windows in the walls — the newspapers, through which we look out 
and get our only knowledge of affairs elsewhere under the sun! 
And the image comes in distorted by the headlines which are 
always fiction, and the articles which are seldom fact ! 

Stranger — What is a headline ? 

Man-wlio-Knows — A headline is the greatest achievement of 
American imaginative art. It is the perfect flower of fancy ! Like 
a nebulous nothing floating in the midst of nowhere, it is without 



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meaning or significance in itself and innocent of relationship to 
anything else — least of all, the news v/hich follows. Its only im- 
portance is the strange fascination it exercises over the average 
citizen. One glance at a headline, and dazzled by its garish charms, 
he sees not Truth hidden in her corner, or cares not if he sees. 

If you. Stranger, are interested in investigating this subject, 
let me indicate how you must read your headlines. If the caption 
is "Brilliant French Victory," you will find that the article tells of 
the French capture of a German trench in the Argonne, which the 
Germans subsequently recaptured, while at the same time, at another 
point, they swept forward and rounded in many French prisoners. 
If you read that "Russians Threaten Berlin," you need not look 
below to discover that Rome says it is reported from Geneva that 
the Petrograd correspondent of the London Morning Post has con- 
fidential information that a new Russian army of a million men are 
soon to begin an advance in the direction of Posen; and also you 
will avoid the embarrassment of reading an official report that the 
Germans have captured an important city in Poland, with at least 
10,000 prisoners, and that the Austrians have cut off and decimated 
and captured great detachments of Cossacks in the Carpathians. 
If the headline tells you that all the defences of Constantinople 
are silenced, and that the Sultan has fled, you may find in the 
small type below the admission that the Turkish silence only fol- 
lowed the retirement of the Allied fleet, badly battered and laden 
with dead and wounded; and on an inside page perhaps you will 
find an illuminating interview with the Sultan, granted in great 
comfort in his palace on the Golden Horn, with no signs of flight 
apparent. You will read, too, at the head of the page in giant 
letters, time after time, that Italy, and Greece, and Roumania are 
about to come to the rescue of the Allies (they do not put it just 
that way!) but if you wade through the rumors under the London 
date-line, you will come at the foot of the column to the official 
statements of the premiers of those countries, re-affirming their 
neutrality. 

Then there is the "atrocity headline." It may read simply 
and eloquently "German Atrocities," or it may be "Germans Burn, 
Loot, Murder," or it may be "Louvain Destroyed" or "Rheims 
Cathedral Shattered." From these signs you are not expected to 
guess that elsewhere, in dark corners and inconspicuous columns of 
the paper, you would find German official denials of atrocities, 
backed by the testimony of American newspaper men and the ad- 
missions of calmer Englishmen ; or the fact that only a small part 
of Louvain was burned, and only as punishment for a cowardly at- 
tack on the backs of German troops from windows and cellars; or 



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the testimony of English and American eye-witnesses that Rheims 
Cathedral is quite intact, supplemented by the testimony of French 
soldiers that the French did conceal their artillery behind the 
sacred edifice, thus directly causing the slight damage done. 

There is a class of news items particularly distinguished by the 
fact that they are never supplied with huge headlines. Such are 
the proofs of English use of dum-dums; the facts about Russian 
crimes, almost unthinkable in their cruelty, in Poland and Galicia ; 
the accounts of recent pogroms against the Jews in Russia; the 
killing of non-combatants in undefended German towns by French 
aviators ; the defeat of English troops by Arab scouts in the Sinai 
peninsula; the murderous repressive measures resorted to by Eng- 
land to "pacify" the outraged and enslaved inhabitants of Egypt 
and India; the total failure of recruiting in Ireland and the coercive 
measures now in force to keep the Irish quiet. 

Stranger — Precisely what is an atrocity? 

Man-wlio-Knows — An atrocity is any vile, cruel or cowardly 
act which an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Belgian or Ridiard 
Harding Davis can think of. After conjuring it up in his own 
diseased imagination, he accuses the Germans of committing it. 
When the war was new, anything culled from the lurid pages of 
Dark Age history sufficed. Delicate tales of German officers cutting 
off the breasts of naked girls, subtle suggestions of old men strung 
up by their thumbs while their feet roasted over slow fires, rough 
calculations of the number of Belgian children whose hands were 
cut off quite casually — these sufficed to impress the mind of America. 
But after American newspaper men of the highest standing, Ameri- 
can and other neutral travellers and even Englishmen proved that 
none of the victims of these acts were visible, that their names were 
never ascertainable, that they always lived in the next town, and 
that, in short, they just simply did not exist and never had existed ; 
after numerous correspondents had seen th« German army, smiling, 
indulgently on all peaceful people after its grim fighting was done, 
paying for everything it took, consisting of civilized men held in 
the most rigid discipline and fighting for an ideal cause; after 
these eventuations, the atrocity stories lost outline and detail and 
shrunk to the status of persistent insinuations and sneers. 

Stranger — You do not mention stories of soldiers tossing chil- 
dren on their bayonets or spears, or ripping embryonic babes from 
their living mother's wombs. These were favorite pastimes of 
Cromwell's Englishmen in Ireland. You do not mention charges 
of murdering women and children by famine and disease in con- 
centration camps ; doubtless such tales would have called too vividly 
to mind the fact that only a dozen short years ago more than 



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twenty thousand Boer women and children were mercilessly done 
to death in English prison-hells. But could Americans really be- 
lieve these things about Germans — Germans whom they knew so 
well? 

Man-ivho-Knows — They did at first, for the headlines said so. 
Slowly, they have come to realize that such things could not be done 
by Germans, while they have on the other hand seen that Eussians 
have really committed dreadful acts which almost make the name 
of humanity a by-word ; and they have realized, perhaps, that only 
German success in keeping the Allies on the "West, out of Germany 
has prevented dreadful deeds on that side, seeing that a large part 
of the Allied army consists of ferocious brown Hindus and savage 
black Africans. 

Stranger — Horrible ! All this accounts for the ghastly appear- 
ance of moral decadence which we on Saturn noticed as we watched 
this conflict afar. The deeds of the battlefield must wear a nobler 
aspect ! How does victory incline ? 

Man-in-the-Street — To the Allies ! 

Man-who-Knows — A victory is a military result which only the 
Allies are permitted to achieve. It is not a difficult achievement. 
Do their armies retreat, shattered by the German offensive? That 
is a "strategic victory !" Do they undertake a "drive" only to be 
driven back decimated and routed from impregnable German posi- 
tions? That is a "marked advance!" Do the Eussians start out 
to capture Przemysl, Cracow, Koenigsberg, Danzig, Breslau, Posen, 
Berlin and Vienna, all in a row, just as easy as that? What does 
it matter what happens to them? — they are still the portentous, 
overpowering "Muscovite steam-roller" ! Do the Allies lose six 
ships and thousands of men at the mere outer portals of the Dar- 
danelles? That has no strategic importance, but the crumbling of 
two tottering old Turk forts is a glorious victory ! 

Stranger — But do the Germans win no victories? 

Man-who-Knows — Impossible ! They smash the whole offensive 
plan of the Allies, to be sure, they blow the best forts in the world 
to atoms, they capture Maubeuge with 40,000 prisoners and huge 
stores of English ammunition secretly deposited there, they establish 
themselves on an impregnable line and settle down to watch the 
Allies dash themselves to pieces, they break one Eussian army after 
another with such slaughter that German officers have gone mad 
with the horror of seeing Eussians dying in such numbers ; but all 
these are merely parts of the greatest defeat any nation ever sus- 
tained ! Do they torpedo English warships till the latter have to 
skulk within their ports? Such things have no military impor- 
tance ! In short, no rout of the Allies is too great to be checked 



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in the London censor's office and turned into a victory in the 
American headlines ; no German success is so great that the censor 
cannot nullify it and the headline magician transform it ! 

Stranger — You mentioned "barbarians." Who are the bar- 
barians ? 

Man-inrthe-Street — The Germans ! 

Man-who-Knows — A "barbarian" is a member of that historic 
German race whose history is the history of the modern world ; who 
nourished through the early ages, in the dark forests of the North, 
a character of virtue, sobriety, hardihood and idealism superior to 
anything that had gone to the making of the Ancient World ; whose 
advent shattered the rotten fabric of the decadent Eoman Empire 
and ushered in the dawn of true European civilization; who gave 
Spain a national consciousness, planted in Northern Italy the seeds 
of the glorious Eenaissance, transformed Gaul into France and set 
it on the way of independent greatness; who gave Christianity a 
continent and sheltered Democracy in Free Cities and powerful 
Guilds; who built the marvellous cathedrals and gave them the 
name of Gothic. 

Stranger — A barbarian is, then, one of those Germans whose 
Universities are sought by the learned and the eager for learning of 
all lands ! The people whose Kultur, or National Consciousness, 
makes and keeps the level of intelligence so high, and distributes 
the blessings of life so equitably ! From Saturn we have admired 
the German cities which of old were beautiful and joyous, and 
to-day are still beautiful and joyous, and cleaner, safer, richer and 
more healthful than cities elsewhere on this globe. We have ad- 
mired the intelligence which administers national, state and local 
government so efficiently, curbing monopoly, investing the people's 
money for the people; we have admired the science which has so 
benefited the world. We know of great German names such as 
Hildebrand, Luther, Jacob Boehme, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Liebnitz, 
Novalis, Fechner, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Guttenberg, Von 
Humboldt, Koch and Eoentgen, Froebel, Goethe, Schiller, Grill- 
parzer, Hauptmann and Von Hoffmansthal. We know that in the 
brilliant Middle Ages the Meistersingers and Minnesingers made 
the German festivals resound with sweet song, and we know that 
the German genius of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Weber, 
Wagner, Brahms and Strauss has made music the Supreme Art 
which not only expresses all human emotions, but symbolizes the 
most ideal and subtle aspirations of the soul. Is it possible that 
Americans believe that these Germans are barbarians? 

Man-who-Knows — Most Americans so believed for several 
months ; many believe so now. Great is the power of the headline ! 



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We forget the facts, already mentioned, about the numbers of 
Germans in this country, the military services they have performed, 
the cities they have built, the inventions they have given us, the 
bridges they have constructed, the money they have banked, the 
bread they have baked ; we forget the names of Leisler and Eitten- 
house, Sigel, Custer, Eosecrans, Schurz, Altgeld, Eoebling, Mergen- 
thaler, Theodore Thomas, the Villards, Havemeyers, Drexels, Dam- 
rosches, and many another whose memory is revered and whose 
achievements have entered into the upbuilding of the Eepublic. 

Stranger — And why should America favor England? 

Man-who-Knows — It is difficult to say, unless we wish to play 
the part of a whipped cur who licks the rod that beats him. Balked 
of her effort to keep America an economic dependency, as Canada 
has been kept, in 1776 and 1813, England treacherously and foully 
destroyed our maritime prosperity during our Civil War. Hateful 
and supercilious toward us till we showed our teeth in 1895, she 
has sought ever since then to flatter us into an alliance, that we 
may fight her battles for her as her dear Allies are doing now. The 
war having come with this purpose unattained, she is once more 
bullying us as if we were but a minor colony of hers. She blockades 
our ports, detains our ships, breaks our trade connections, deprives 
us of imports of vital need to our industries, threatens us if we 
establish a merchant marine, ruins some of our most profitable ex- 
port industries, impudently requires the permission of her Am- 
bassador and her consuls before goods can leave American shores, 
holds up the shipment of cotton till ruin spreads through the 
South, buys in millions of bales at a fraction of their value and 
sells at a vast profit when she pleases to permit the staple to move, 
impudently steals our flag to protect her ships which her navy dares 
not protect — 

Man-in-the-Street — Enough ! I am not pro-English ! No 
Americans are — though there are Tories and snobs who steal the 
name ! But we are indignant at Germany's treatment of poor little 
Belgium ! These Germans violated that little nation's neutrality, 
burned or blew up most of the country, and chased the people into 
exile ! 

Stranger — You appal me ! 

Man-ivho-Knows — It is an appalling idea — but fortunately un- 
true. Most of Belgium is to-day quite unharmed, neither burned nor 
blown up; most of the people are at home; and the country is 
quite as neutral now as it ever was. Let us examine this Belgian 
matter from the beginning. 

Stranger — It has always appeared to us on Saturn that the 
very acts which created Belgium were what might now be called 



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'^atrocities," and were certainly violations not merely of neutrality, 
but of nationality and sovereignty. Belgium was conceived in 
injustice and born in tyranny. We were indignant when we saw 
England forcibly tear from France a portion of her territory and 
people, and from the Netherlands a part of her people and land, 
and forcibly bind these unwilling and dissimilar French and Flem- 
ings in an artificial union — which, by-the-way, has been productive 
of continual internal strife, the two peoples never becoming recon- 
ciled to each other. Looking down upon the earth as on a map, 
the reason for England's creation of Belgium was plain. It was 
merely to set Antwerp in a neutral ring, to lessen its prosperity and 
power, and to keep it from being the port of any great and strong 
nation. 

Man-wlio-Knows — As the English authority Col. C. F. E. Hen- 
derson says, in his "Science of War," "Nature has fonned the 
Scheldt to be the natural rival of the Thames." With a greater 
hinterland behind it, the Scheldt would be gi-eater than the Thames 
— Antwerp would be commercially greater than London. Col. 
Henderson then points out that every participation of England in 
war on the European continent for the past two hundred and fifty 
years or more has been substantially for the sole purpose of keep- 
ing Antwerp from being the port of any other strong power. 
Hillaire Belloc, a French-English militarist and critic of great in- 
sight and independence, has recently pointed out that the real 
cause of England's participation in the present war is her determina- 
tion that she shall never have a rival across the Narrow Seas. When 
France expanded to a great and powerful empire, England cease- 
lessly intrigued, leagued and fought till France was ruined — not 
for the liberty of Europe, but that there might be no powerful rival 
across the Narrow Seas, with Antwerp as its port. Even with Ant- 
werp out of the question, England would brook no powerful rival, 
with any port, across the Narrow Seas; so France was crushed. 
Even with the Narrow Seas out of the question, England would 
brook no rival anywhere — so, at various times Spain has been 
ruined by piracy and the maritime prosperity of the United States 
destroyed by treachery. 

Stranger — But to return to Belgium. I know that in 1839 a 
treaty was made between Prussia and England and other countries 
guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium. I know that in 1866 
France proposed to Prussia that they two violate that neutrality — 
by dividing the country between them — and that Prussia refused. 
I know that the first treaty was considered null and void in 1870, 
for England got France and Prussia to sign another and super- 
seding treaty in this year ; but the superseding treaty was limited by 



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express terms to one year after the conclusion of the Franco-Ger- 
man War — that is, as events proved, till 1872. I know that Palmer- 
ston, when English premier in 1855, Derby, while premier in 
1867, and Gladstone, while premier in 1870, each and all let the 
world know that England did not consider the Belgian neutraliza- 
tion treaty binding on England, conditions having changed. Thu^ 
the first treaty, which Prussia signed, was nullified by England, the 
second was terminated by explicit provision in 1872, and there 
never has been a treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality signed by 
the present German Empire, nor was there any such treaty in force 
in August, 3 914. 

Man-iulio-Knows — Yet our so-called American press, by print- 
ing only what London said and desired, by ignoring facts and re- 
fraining from thought or investigation, has succeeded in arousing 
many of our people to the horror of Germany's "violation of Bel- 
gian neutrality !" They ignore, too, the fact that Belgium had 
forfeited the role of a puny ward of the nations. Even in 1864 
Belgium had sent troops to assist France in her attempt to set an 
Emperor on the throne in Mexico — violating Mexican neutrality, 
flouting the Monroe Doctrine, defying the United States and out- 
raging the cause of liberty. Belgium had a great army, great forti- 
fications — directed only against Germany — and a great African 
empire. Belgium was a self-reliant state. She decided her own acts 
— and her own fate. That is, her rulers decided. 

Man-in-the-Street — What you say is very illuminating to me, 
I confess, but there remains the actual physical invasion of Bel- 
gium by German troops and the miseries that brought on the 
country. 

Man-who-Knows — A few years ago the English press and pulpit 
and forum rang with charges of monstrous brutality. England was 
aroused against the most barbarous crimes ever committed — so 
England said. The American press then as now echoed the charges, 
and American literary men wrote books to prove the English point. 
And who were the objects of this campaign of denunciation ? The 
Belgian people ! And why ? Because the Belgian King owned the 
great rubber forests of the Congo, which had suddenly vastly in- 
creased in value through the multiplication of automobiles; and it 
pleased England to discover dreadful atrocities committed by Bel- 
gians in the Congo. Chief of these atrocities was the cutting off of 
hands; there were numerous photographs to prove it, though, 
strangely enough, in this day wlien the charge has been transferred 
to the Germans, England has failed to produce a single photograph 
of a Belgian with a hand cut off! "Well, English public opinion 
was being goaded into supporting the government in a steal of 



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the Congo — the public opinion of the world was being prepared to 
justify the act. Then the whole agitation collapsed. What had 
happened? It was at this time that Belgium permitted England's 
military attaches to inspect the military plans of Belgium. The 
completion of a definite plan of military co-operation' between the 
two governments was about coincident with the cessation of Eng- 
lish agitation against Belgium. I think we shall learn in the ful- 
ness of time how the Belgian Eoyal Family and the governing 
clique sold themselves and their country to England, making them- 
selves tools of the Great Tyrant in anticipation of this very war, and 
in return for an English guarantee of the safety of their rubber 
wealth. Sorry for Belguim? Of course we are sorry — sorry that 
her people were not really self-governing, that they did not know 
their own rulers, did not control their own affairs. Every educated 
man and woman in Europe has known for years that the Triple 
Entente's plan of campaign included primarily a joint English- 
French-Belgian invasion of the Ehine Provinces of Germany 
through Belgium; it was an open secret like the English supply 
depot at Maubeuge and the setting of 1916 as the date for the 
war — if events had not hurried it ! Germany justifies the invasion 
of Belgium by the law of necessity, which England has invoked 
time and time again. We should not forget that England has since 
the war began violated the neutrality of Egypt, Norway, Switzer- 
land, and Chili, and that England and Japan have violated the 
neutrality of China. England has even violated the neutrality of 
America. Her ships have illegally used the ports of Panama as 
bases. They and the warships of Japan at this moment are using 
Turtle Bay in Mexico as a base. Her agents are actively recruiting 
for her army and navy in our cities. Let us not forget, too, that 
the war was precipitated by the incursion of Cossack hordes into 
Germany and the dropping of French bombs on undefended German 
cities. Let us not forget that Germany frankly went to Belgium 
and stated that her existence depended on passing through Belgium, 
and offered to go through peaceably and to pay for any damage and 
inconvenience caused. Let us not forget, too, that most of Belgium 
is and has been quite unscathed. Even where the troops have 
passed, those villages where no resistance was offered and where 
no sniping occurred, are quite unharmed. But where the Belgian 
army, having chosen to fight, had been fairly whipped, and German 
troops had entered into quiet and kindly occupation, and where 
then cowardly skulkers and loafers had sniped them from windows 
and cellars — there the Germans burned and killed. They burned 
the houses whence the foul bullets came; they killed the males in 
those houses. Most of those killed were guilty murderers; and the 



A Trip through Headline Land 15 

result was the stopping of sniping, thereby saving many thousands 
not only of German lives, but of Belgian. Their conduct was 
justified by common sense and by the law of nations. 

Speaking of international law, you will find that Grotius, Wicker, 
Pliillimore,Twiss, Hall, Martens, Pomeroy, and all other authorities, 
English and otherwise, recognize that in dire and critical necessity 
the usual rules may and must be disregarded. Laws are not made to 
control but to recognize facts. Facts change — ^necessities change — 
and rules and conduct change with them. Moreover, the transient 
nature of treaties is an axiom with the students of history, as shown 
by Wharton, Hall, Hautefeuille, Bluntschli, Heffter, Fiori, John 
Stuart Mill, Bernard, Hannis Taylor, Pomeroy, Pinhiero-Ferreira 
and others. The United States Supreme Court, in Justice Field's 
opinion, supported by the unanimous bench, on the Chinese Exclu- 
sion case, asserted the right of a nation to violate a treaty in view 
of necessity and changed conditions ; and Secretary of State Sher- 
man refused to consider the United States bound by a Hawaiian 
treaty with Japan after the annexation of Hawaii. In 1839 Eng- 
lish troops invaded the State of New York in pursuit of Canadian 
revolutionaries, and justified the act on the grounds of immediate 
necessity. In short, Belgium had no protection but the morality 
of her own acts ; but she had given her destiny into the hands of a 
governing class more interested in Congo rubber than in Belgian 
welfare, and that governing class betrayed her by allying with one 
of the two parties to the inevitable European conflict — the party 
of the aggressor and the party that was unable to protect her ! 

Man-in-the-Street — But why should England have desired war ? 

Stranger — Oh, I think I can answer that. From Saturn the 
English Empire appears to us as a monstrous machine for creating 
wealth for the upper classes of England, by dispossessing English- 
men of the soil and forcing them into factories, and by stealing 
vast areas of the globe to supply raw materials for those factories, 
and by subjugating countless millions of people and planting great 
colonies to consume the products of those factories, and by ruling 
all the seas of the world under the threat of her monstrous navy. 
For the continued success of this great tyrannical conspiracy two 
things are essential. First, every strategic point on the seas must 
be English : England herself, Ireland, Gibraltar, Egypt, Malta, the 
Persian Gulf, the islands of the Pacific, the Cape of Good Hope. 
Second, no other nation must be permitted, by superior efficiency, 
honesty and adaptability or by any means, to dispute England's 
markets. But Germany had done just this — by honest superiority 
of methods and industry. As an English writer put it, 250,000,000 
lbs. sterling of annual trade formed the greatest cause of war the 



16 A Trip through Headline Land 

world has ever known. Then England allied herself with the terri- 
ble threatening power of barbarous Russia and with the mad jeal- 
ousy of France, and openly boasted that she had "put a ring of 
iron around Germany." This, it seems to me, was the cause of the 
War. 

Man-in-the-8treet — ^But England's colonies have rallied to her ! 

Man-who-Knows — Another victory for the headlines ! Have not 
the Boers revolted and prevented the sending of any troops from 
South Africa to Europe? Is not India now rebelling in the North, 
rioting in the South? Is not Egypt a volcano, requiring huge 
forces of troops to hold it quiet ? Has not Ireland refused to help ? 
Surely you are not deceived by the silly report that 250,000 Irish- 
men have gone to the front, when you know that the number is 
meant to include everyone with any Irish blood in the English, 
Canadian or Australian armies, and is only a wild guess at that? 
One week after the cold-blooded shooting of 64 Irish men, women 
and children in the streets of Dublin, do you think Ireland could 
forget seven centuries of tyranny? What could they tell her of 
atrocities that would not remind her of her ruins and her depopu- 
lation? What could they say of violated Belgium that would not 
recall her broken treaties? How can they plead for small nations 
while her industries lie in ruins, her ports are empty, and her 
people, or the remnants of them, are taxed to death and exile amid 
their desolate fields ? They have suppressed her newspapers and are 
imprisoning her patriots, but, as the English papers bitterly com- 
plain, the Irish are not enlisting. Indeed, where they dare they 
cheer the Kaiser and sing the German anthems, for has not the 
German government proclaimed to all the world that if the fortunes 
of war permit German troops to land in Ireland, they will come not 
to conquer or harm, but to liberate and spread prosperity? 

Man-in-the-Street — Well, anyway, Austria began the war by 
bullying little Servia. 

Stranger — Peace, brother! We have watched events on this 
globe long and carefully. Nothing has been more distressing to 
watch than the constant throes of war in the Balkans. Nothing 
has been more astonishing than the patience and moderation of 
Austria toward Servia in recent years. Bullying ! It has been 
little Servia who has bullied big Austria ! And why ? Because this 
little swaggering race of swine-herds insists that they be permitted 
to build up a great Servian Empire. To do so they must subjugate 
alien Bulgars in Macedonia, annexing that territory which is no 
way theirs, and they must annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, which 
have never been theirs, and are inhabited but in part by Serbs, and 
these all Mohammedans who hate and dread Servia, knowing the 



A Trip through Headline Land 17 

persecution and death that awaits them if they are added to the 
"Servian Empire." So they must harass Austria, which has fostered 
Bosnia and Herzegovina and made them prosperous and civilized, 
and does not propose to turn them over to the assassin govern- 
ment of an inferior people, to become once more the victims 
of Balkan turbulence. Moreover, Austria realizes that it is a grim 
joke of Russia to encourage a "great Servian Empire," or a "great 
South Slav Empire." If there is any Slav empire going it will be 
Russian — a part of that huge barbarous power of debased, unedu- 
cated people, blindly servile to cynical rulers, which more and more 
threatens and appals the world. From Saturn, where all for thou- 
sands of years has been peace and equality of education and op- 
portunity, it is strange and dreadful to look down on earth and 
realize that while great areas are inhabited by splendid clean edu- 
cated people, cherishing ideals of justice and humaneness, and 
familiar with all the achievements of the imagination and all the 
aspirations of the soul, there are at one and the same time huge 
countries inhabited by savages, who know naught of the gentler 
aspirations of humanity, naught of the arts, naught of the ideals 
by which the race is painfully striving toward true intelligence, 
real peace and beneficent prosperity. Now surely America is not 
siding with the Allies who include practically every barbarous 
nation and savage tribe, and who are hurling these creatures of 
blind lust and ferocity against the heroic German people, within 
whose borders are the homes and haunts of the brightest glories of 
human achievement— prosperous labor, intelligent homes, great 
schools, triumphant science, glorious arts? 

Man-in-the-8trcet — Well, I have sided with the Allies, but I 
think perhaps I had better think again. Perhans I had better read 
something else besides headlines. 

Stranger— 1 am sure that America is learning and will learn, 
and that this great Republic will stand eventually in moral support 
of those United States of Germany whose triumph will mean the 
freeing of the seas of the world, the liberation of oppressed peoples, 
the transformation of Russia from a huge threat in the hands of an 
autocrat to a progressive state engaged m educating and advancing 
its people, the regeneration of France in sanity and honor, and the 
incalculable advantage of civilization everywhere. With this hope 
I return to gladden the spirits of the heavenly spheres. 



SAMPLES OF HEADLINES 

We are able to present here a few pictures of the immortal head- 
lines of American newspapers in the time of the Great War. There 
are no extreme examples, and the exhibit is woefully inadequate to 
indicate the full extent of the devoted service to Untruth performed 
by the gifted imaginers of these inexhaustible fictions. We give 
enough to show that the same practices prevail in all sections of the 
country, among all classes of papers, and that time dulleth not the 
edge of this weapon. It has been truly said that the greatest 
achievement of the English navy was the cutting of the American- 
German cable; equally true is it that the supreme strategic 
achievement of the Allies was the capture of the American press. 
The reading matter which followed the headlines, the editorials 
and the cartoons, combined in an effect as baneful as that of the 
headlines. At this date it is difficult to secure examples of the 
headlines of the earliest days in a form which permits of photo- 
graphing; but their nature is sufficiently displayed here, if indeed 
it needs demonstration to the American people. We are all familiar 
to nausea with the glaring announcements of victories which have 
never occurred, the villainous accusations of atrocities never com- 
mitted, the treacherous attempts to create a feeling of enmity between 
this country and Germany, and the diminuendo, pianissimo, shrink- 
ing-violet style of printing the truth about German victories, German 
practices, and the German attitude toward this country. 



20 A Trip through Headline Land 



PLATE ONE 

At the top we have an announcement of an extraoi*dinary item 
of news. The Germans, it seems, have enlisted a privateer fleet. 
February 22nd is the date of this atrocity, and in the months that 
have ela23sed since then the German privateer fleet has been living 
a life of the strictest retirement. It is not presumable, however, 
that any of the habitues of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Seventh 
Avenue, between 28th and 50th Streets, New York, the only people 
who ever read the Evening Telegram, is endowed with memory, or 
with spirit enough to question any of the "pink un's" pronounce- 
ments. It will be noticed that another Russian victory is achieved in 
this issue. The result, presumably, was the usual advance toward the 
rear. Below, we find proof that the Germans are in despair. They 
are, according to Mr. Bennet, using women as soldiers. If it was 
German women who shortly after this won the battle at Neuve 
Chapelle, they are better fighters than the English suffragettes. 
These are, as every New Yorker whose business calls him even oc- 
casionally to the Rialto knows, very mild examples of the headline 
art as practised on Herald Square. 

The other two samples of New York evening headlines show 
that in the five and a half months between August 7th and January 
28th the Evening Mail had reduced by 5,000 its customary sacrifice 
of Germans. How long, at this rate, would it take the Evening 
Mail to become sane and truthful.'' 



PLATE ONE 



I NIGHT 
EDITION 



The Evening TelegramlM^ 



GERMANY ENLISTS PRIVATEER FLEET: 
MAIL STEAMSHIP SHELLED, ESCAPES; 
RUSSIAN GUARD WINS LONG FIGHT 



;MM]The Evening Telegram H 



GHT 
EDITION 



NO PROTEST ON FLAG ISSUE; 
GERMAN DESPAIR PROVED BY 
USE OF WOMEN AS SOLDIERS \ 

edTt^on the evening mail li^rw^ I 



I YEAR NO 186. NEW YORK. FRtDAY. AUGUST 7. 19H. 



GERMANS SACRIHCE 25.000: 
ASK TRUCE TO BURY DEAD: 
FRENCH ENTERING BELG IUM 

^"mI t he evenin g Mail "■'*" 

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fiKMAJI LOSSlPoPUMWr 
FRENCH CLAIMJIG DRIVE FAILS 



22 A Trip through Headline Land 

FLATE TWO 

Headlines, like Paris fashions, are much the same East and 
West, in great metropolis and inland city. From, the St. Louts 
Republic we learn that Reims cathedral is destroyed, and that four 
hundred citizens of that city were killed. The headlines telling the 
truth about Reims Cathedral were much smaller — oh, much. The 
Cleveland Leader double-columns news of the "agent provocateur" 
type, designed to cause "grave fears" of conflict between this country 
and Germany, but a slim and modest heading is sufficient to announce 
that England insists on its right to outrage the American Flag, and 
no "grave fears" are aroused by this. This Cleveland paper is not 
a Leader in devotion to Old Glory. If anything might have for- 
given a headline page-wide, it would have been indignation at this 
impudent appropriation of our national emblem; but the Leader's 
veins run water. Perhaps it reads lectures on Americanism to Ger- 
man-Americans whose ancestors shed their blood under the Stars 
and Stripes, and considers its duty done. 

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is among the papers which as- 
sisted the Allied Warships to reduce all — note, all — the Dardanelles 
forts, and made the momentous discovery that the gateway to Con- 
stantinople was open ; that was some months ago. Doubtless this 
headline is kept standing and is used at frequent intervals. Perhaps 
the Globe-Democrat's editors might be induced to make the trip 
through the Dardanelles on a warship flying the English or French 
flag, seeing that the forts are all reduced and the gateway open. 
And if the Allies will not put a warship at their disposal, the pub- 
lishers of this pamphlet will gladly take up a popular subscription 
to charter a yacht to take said editors through the gateway to Con- 
stantinople, under the English or French flag. 

In the upper left hand corner the reader may just discern a 
typical headline announcing the arrival in New York of three 
wounded French reservists, on their way back to their homes in 
Canada, who testified unequivocally that the French had artillery 
posted just behind Reims Cathedral, using the sacred edifice as a 
cover, and then blackguarding the Germans (whose artillery is so 
posted that it could knock the building to splinters in an hour if 
they so chose) for throwing just enough light shells that way to 
dislodge the skulkers. It reminds one of the remark in the New 
York Evening Sun, that the French and the English burned Jeanne 
d'Arc at the stake not far from Reims Cathedral, and now complain 
that the Germans toss a few shells around her statue ! This head- 
line, from a Washington Munsey newspaper, is typical of the space 
devoted to this bit of truth in those papers that printed it at all ! 



PLATE TWO 



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AMCmCA-S rORCMOST DttMVCRATIC newaPAPR^ 



MONDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 21 



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GERMAN SHELLS FIRE REIMS CATHEDR AL IS DESTROYED 

Allhs' Left Gains; CenterTakes Thousands of Prisoners 



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RUSSIAN FORT BY STORM 



24 A Trip through Headline Land 

PLATE THREE 

In the upper left hand corner we see a sample of the sort of 
headline which moulded American opinion in the first days of the 
War. The Kaiser is the one who precipitates hostilities, and pre- 
sumably the "Diplomats" referred to, who made vain efforts for 
peace, were all non-Germans. How many people, out of all who 
have their first opinion formed by tliis sort of tiling, afterward cor- 
rected their impressions by reading thoroughly the White Books, 
or even the "Willy-Georgie-Nickie" telegrams.'* In this instance 
even the French mobilization order is made to appear more justified 
than the "Imperious Demand From Berlin." Below, we learn that 
while Austria invades Servia, only Russia and England are striving 
to avoid war ! To the right, we see that the Kaiser said "War" to 
Russia ; but what the Kaiser really said, as printed some days later, 
with much smaller headlines, was that as Russian troops had actually 
invaded Germany, committing acts of violence, it was necessary for 
Germany to consider itself in a state of war, due to these aggres- 
sions. These headlines are written by willing assistants of England, 
on a basis of London despatches written by Englishmen. Above, 
we see how a Berlin despatch was treated with the contempt it was 
thought to deserve. These headlines are from Washington news- 
papers, which chiefly moulded the ideas of American statesmen on 
the War. 

Below, to the right, we see how anxious the New York Times 
was to do justice to the Germans, who at the time were being vio- 
lently accused of having ill-treated Englisli and American women 
and children. The testimony of an English lady to German courtesy 
was printed — as inconspicuously as possible ! Next we see a head- 
line typical of the fuss and furor created by one of England's 
violations of neutrality, in seizing German ships in the Suez Canal. 
Next we see how an Austrian victory was announced — in contrast 
with headlines about mythical Serb victories which are too big to 
reproduce. Above, -there is a sample of indignation at a British 
atrocity. Next to it is one of the most vicious of headlines, one of 
the unscrupulous accusations designed to make Americans believe 
that the German army was wantonly committing the foulest crimes. 

Above the last-mentioned, we see an amusing sample of the 
mythical headline. The French, it seems, had swept the Germans 
back in two shakes of a lamb's tail and were before Strassburg, eight 
days after war began. Below, we see how the New York Times and 
other papers customarily, from the first day to this, have treated 
the only reliable news there is, that issued formally by various 
authorities in Berlin. 



WUl Not S«DD< UU 10 Arms 
Uotu Hope b Guck 



PLATE THREE 

PEACE EFFORTS OF DIPLOMAIS 
ARE VAIN WHEN KAISER CASTS 
GAU NTLET TO R USSIAN 

Order for French Mobilization Is Answer of Paris Govern- 
ment to Imperious Demand From Berlin 
Cabinet for Explanation. 

MiLUONS OF men" RESPOND TO CALL HtO RUSSIAN NATION 

FOR THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONFUQ 



5ER SAYS ^^AR" 



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Americans and Olher Foreigners in Panic lo Get Out of Belligerent /^ ^ * 

Conntries Before Fighting ActuaDy Begins-ltaly IISPATCHES FROM BOTH 

Resolycd te Keep OoL QPITALS CONFIRM NEWS 

LONDOM, August 1. — Events in the European crisis developed to- 
day with startliiio rapidity. The German ultimatum to Russia, demand- i lKftnc tk( AriTlPlI Mpn nn FrAntiAre I 



L.-i:. 



U tlw Russia cea^e the mobilization of her army, expired at noon, and 



atSifi o'clock in the afternoon the German emperor signed *mobili*ition 



AUSTRIA INVAUbbbtKViA - 

AS RUSSIA AND ENGLAND J,.^.;. — ;::r> 
STRIVE TO AVERT A WAr £=Sr:5'3E:| 



h rf Wwld's Greatesl Armies 
m/ Way Be Only a Matter of Hours. 



AFTER STUNG VICTORIES 



Great Britain Proposes Mediation, bulp: 
Germany Is Holding Aloof. 

HOPE IN CZAR'S GOVERN MENtg—™;-^ 




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Berlin Heart Ip^sToers Have 
Lost HeaviW and *'« Bems 
Driven BacV. 



26 A Trip through Headline Land 



PLATE FOUR 

At the top, left, is a mild sample of the indignation of the press 
at the firing on an American launch by the Turks at Smyrna. At 
the right top will be found a typical example of the size headline 
given to the subsequent explanations showing that the act was a 
friendly warning to save the launch from danger. Below, center, 
will be found an example of how easily space is commanded for a 
story that would not fool a child, so long as said story comes from 
London and is inimical to the Germans. 

Another large headline is a mild sample of the excitement over 
the blowing up of an American cotton ship by accidental contact 
with a mine. At the time it was written there was hope that the 
incident would embroil this country with Germany. It later ap- 
peared that the disaster was due to an English naval officer's sus- 
picious directions, and the headlines diminished. By contrast, notice 
the calm, continent, modest announcements about the sinking of an 
American ship by the Russians, the gross insult offered the American 
flag on the S.S. Greenbriar, the closing of the North Sea — 650 miles 
broad — by England, the cowardly imperilling of American lives on 
the Olympic after the English navy had fled to save itself, and the 
wonderful journalistic feat of the Nero York Times, which has "all 
the news it sees fit to print," in concealing from its readers the fact 
that Colonel Goethals had found it necessary to call for warships 
to prevent the English from using the Panama Canal as if it were 
theirs. 



PLATE FOUR 



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INGERMANWATERS; CREW IS RESCUED; 
» PRESIDENT ORDERS INVESTIGATION 



Bremen Cable Say a Mine DestTo^e<^tKe 
Evelyn; Consul Gives No Details. 



AMERICAN UNER 
PUTSOUTUGHTSIN 
CROSSING IRISH SEA 



Olympic in Great Peril From Mines 

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28 A Trip through Headline Land 



PLATE FIVE 

At the top, left, we see a beautiful sample of the mythical head- 
line, and beside it are really good samples of the modest and shrink- 
ing appearance which the truth is forced to wear. Below are 
examples of ingenuity in suppressing conclusive denials and dis- 
proofs of crimes previously charged against Germans in the most 
conspicuous way. Note how the citation from the Osservatore 
Romano, the only possible source of the exact facts about the 
Cardinal Mercier matter, is suppressed. 

In the lower corner will be seen the results of continued treachery 
to a friendly nation: treachery to our own country by practically 
suppressing the really important news of Japanese espionage and 
Jajianese aggressions. 



PLATE FIVE 



{GERMANS GIVE UPXOOZ 
AS RUSSIANS PUSH ON; 
LOSSE^DEFRESSKAi 

\lnuKovites, Still Fighting Activij, 
Check Foes in Carpathiant. 



I Tmtton Army Shi/ ted to Naw Fidd in E0oit to 
Meet RuMsian Strategy — Grand Duka in Pom- 
tion to Deal Hard Blow at Von Hindenbarg. 
German Emperor Rtuhee to Berlin for War 
Council— Depreued by Slaughter of 4SfiOO 
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30 A Trip through Headline Land 



PLATE SIX 

No headline artists can surpass those of the New York Journal. 
Here is a recent sample of "agent provocateur" headline, based on 
nothing at all. As the Journal headline is the most conspicuous 
feature of the New York landscape every afternoon, and the dozen 
or so different headlines each afternoon during the War have been 
of about this type, the effect can be calculated. 

One little sample of the New York Herald's spleen, based of 
course on the impartial (?) news of the Daily Mail (of Lunnon, 
y'know) is given at the lower left. The rest of the samples on this 
p£ge — the little ones which you can see if you look long and hard — 
are headings designed to conceal articles condemnatory of England 
or exculpatory of Germany. 

Tliis Is Neutrality! 



PLATE SIX 



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Composite picture of headlines in hundreds of pipers announcing: The 
destruction of a Russiin army in the first battle of Mazurian Lakes; the 
slaughter of French in the first days of Battle of the Aisne; a German gain 
of 4 miles along a 13 mile front; the fearful slaughter of French in the winter 
assaults in the Champagne; the outraging of American Citizens on the seas, 
in England and in English colonies; the violation of American neutrality by 
recruiting for England's army in America; and a thousand other things. 

This will also do for a composite picture of: Editorials of indignation over 
England's breaches of the neutrality of Norway, Spain, Chili, the Suez Canal and 
America; over English prison-camps; over the unspeakable and surpassing horrible 
brutalities of the "dear ally" Russia, in East Prussia and Galicia. 



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